Monday October 12th Late Night Talk Show Recap

Daily Show: There was a protest in Washington over gay rights but the news networks didn’t cover it. CNN dissects and fact checks an SNL sketch that said Obama hasn’t done anything. More health care talk and claims. CNN ends a lot of their conversations abruptly with the line “we’ll leave it there.” They also have a lot of problems with fact checking. Then Aasif Mandvi and John Oliver give their opinions on how bad the network is. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is the guest and takes up two segments. Jon checks in with Stephen and Stephen makes himself look better.

Letterman: Creepy Dick Cheney painting has his eyes moving. Dip pork ribs into vicks vaporub to avoid swine flu virus. Things more fun than reading the Sarah Palin memoir: getting run over by a lawnmower. Dave tells some story about a guy who wanted to borrow money, but he has gambling money, then Dave says he made it all up. Nobel prize in physics went to the inventors of the digital camera but the pictures of them are blurry, red eyed or out of frame. New saints included the inventor of the power juicer. A CBS news program says Obama would be on the Tonight Show with David Letterman. Top 10 things Christopher Columbus would say if he were alive today. Gary Shandling talks about his old comedy show. Kaley Cuoco talks about stepping on Sigourney Weaver’s dress at the Emmys, a fender bender she was in and Dave shows a clip of a commercial she was in when she was young. Tim McGraw performs.

Conan: 60 minutes cuts to Andy Rooney but he’s sleeping. Report on sex offenders living in the woods shows Max Weinberg naked in a tent from that concert video they did. Brian McCann reports on incoming rain and freaks out about it. Conan says Mayor Booker is coming on the show Friday so he mentions the best things about Newark but they aren’t very good. Another staff member comes out with the guy who wanted black drinking because he wants a Jewish drinking day. Jamie Foxx talks and confirms that the naked picture of him on the internet is really him. Jason Alexander talks about being the test guest during Conan’s audition and about the Seinfield reunion on Curb. Grizzly Bear performs.

Fallon: Jimmy shows the clip of when the Roots band member said he would make sweet love to his woman for his birthday so now he sings a song about making love on Columbus Day. Jimmy shows the Miley Cyrus rap video explaining why she quit Twitter so Jimmy did one as Billy Ray Cyrus saying he is still on Twitter. Kathie Lee Gifford rambles about a lot of different topics then plays name that tune with Jimmy where they try to guess what song they are “lalala-ing.” Penn Badgley talks about being named after Penn brand tennis balls, taking college classes at age 14, helping to name a sandwich the Gossip Grill and his new movie. Love and Theft performs.

Ferguson: They air a promo hyping up a “party at Elton John’s house” sketch, which will be airing Friday, showing clips of it and the many times Craig has made that joke. Kristen Bell in a video reads an excerpt from Craig's book about acid. David Boreanaz. Author Mitch Albom. Dierks Bentley performs.